A concrete poem is a poem that is a shape, people can write inside the shape or do the outline of the shape and the shape must be drawn according to the topic of the poem.

How to make a concrete poem:

To make a concrete poem you would have to pick a theme and a shape that matches well together, then write your poem inside the shape OR on the outline of the shape you need some important details like:Alliteration, sentences and imagery.

Success Criteria:

• include sentences or add single words
• alliteration
• simile
• Imagery

Optional things you can add:

• metaphor.
• Rhyme
• Onomatopia
• personification

My example:

Theme:Moon

Shape: crescent moon

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Lush, Ethereal

Blooming, fluttering, growing

plants, greenery, dying , rot

Succumbing, perishing, Decaying

Extinct, ruined

Pollution

How to make a Diamanté poem:

• A diamanté poem always has 7 lines
• In a shape of a diamond\Rhombus
• Lines 1,4 and 7 has nouns
• Lines 2 & 6 have adjectives
• Lines 3 & 5 have verbs
• Opposite sides/topics of synonyms/similar topics
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• Half and Half
• At least 14 words

A diamanté poem is a poem that is in a shape of a diamond, In French diamanté means a diamond so that’s what is was named after.

How to make a Diamanté poem:

• A diamanté poem always has 7 lines
• Lines 1,4 and 7 has nouns
• Lines 2 & 6 have adjectives
• Lines 3 & 5 have verbs
• Opposite Or Similar topics
• Titles on the bottom and top
• Half and Half
• At least 14 words

A limerick always has 5 lines and the first line has to rhyme with the 2nd and 5th line and the 3rd and 4th line have to rhyme.

Success criteria:

• 1,2,5 have to rhyme
• The lines line 3/4 have to rhyme
• poetic devices
• lines not always full sentences

Limericks have a nice rhythm, you can read the out loud and hear a beat forming

so to make one you would have to have the lines 1,2 and 5 rhyming and having some

main poetic devices and not all lines have to be sentences.